Excerpt from Tenement House Reform in New York, 1834-1900: Prepared for the Tenement House Commission of 1900 The educational work undertaken by the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor in 1846, and carried on so successfully by them until 1871, was now taken up by another charitable society, namely, the State Charities Aid Association, formed in 1873. This Society, through its Standing Committee, On the Elevation of the Poor in Their Homes, in 1877, again called attention to the need of reform, and leading architects of the city were asked to send in plans for improved tenement houses, so that the best intelligence of the community might be got to work upon the problem. It appears that at this time there were in New York City tenement houses, and that the excessive mortality and sickness in the city at that time was held to be mainly due to the defective system of tenement-house life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.